"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have...
And where love ends, hate begins
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"I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becomin...
"The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.
"One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law ...
"At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into...
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is som...
"It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcel...
"Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important pe...
"But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second mont...
"Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life
"Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate.
"As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepa...
"During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no n...
"You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dej...